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Intermittent Fasting

Lose Weight FAST and Everything Else You Need to Know About Intermittent Fasting and How It Can Change Your Life

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Introduction

I want to thank you and congratulate you for purchasing Intermittent Fasting: Lose Weight FAST and Everything Else You Need to Know About Intermittent Fasting and How to Can Change Your Life ! Weight loss is a struggle that millions of people are burdened with every year. With obesity rates rising and the greater populations health declining, the push for a healthier lifestyle is more prominent than ever. However, wanting to be healthier, skinner, and stronger is only the first part of the weight loss journey. Action and self-motivation are the driving forces of success.

Intermittent fasting may seem like another example of the latest dieting fad. However, the concept of fasting is an ancient practice that dates back at least two thousand years. Not only has fasting been used as a method of spiritual and psychological healing, but also for physical health as well. Intermittent fasting is a simplified, yet efficient fasting practice that is not only proven to enhance your health, but essentially guarantees weight loss. This book contains everything you need to know about intermittent fasting and how adopting this new lifestyle will change your life.

Here is an inescapable fact: although everyones body is different, we all function on the same fundamental level. This book explains in-depth the biological processes your body goes through while fasting, and how after just a short amount of time, you will begin to see the amazing physical benefits of intermittent fasting. One of the most common reasons people often give up so quickly on diets and meal plans is because they feel like they are missing out on enjoying the foods they love and frequently experience hunger and cravings. Intermittent fasting is different because it lets you eat delicious food while still losing weight; plus, you will never feel hungry!

If you do not develop your eating habits and efficiently strategize your weight loss plan, nothing you do will ever work: your health with stay the same and you can even end up gaining weight. No one wants to be overweight or unhealthy; it is an accumulation of all the small decisions we make every day that lead to the development of obesity and health ailments. Intermittent fasting not only reverses many diseases, but also prevents the development of further conditions, helps you lose weight faster, and improves cognitive function. Whether your goal with intermittent fasting is to lose weight, have sharper focus, or cure your type 2 diabetes, you will still achieve all of your health and fitness goals with this incredible detox method.

Its time for you to become an amazing and better version of yourself! Health is something that you must strive for every day, even when you do not see the results in the mirror or feel discouraged to cease your effort and give up entirely. You can become the very best version of yourself just by simply reevaluating your lifestyle and making the small change of implementing intermittent fasting as a critical component of your daily routine. Good luck on your health and wellness journey: enjoy!

Chapter 1: What is Intermittent Fasting?

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Fasting has been an intricate part of history and culture for more than two thousand years. In fact, even our prehistoric Paleo ancestors unknowingly practiced the strategy of fasting; as hunters, they never knew when their next meal would come. In nearly every country all over the world, there is some component of fasting that was utilized in an effort to gain spiritual insight, proficient health, and improve cognitive function. Although the many amazing benefits of fasting have been proven time and time again, the modern worlds reliance on medical practitioners has led many to believe that not eating for any length of time and be detrimental to your health.

Because of the idea of skipping a meal is practically taboo in todays society, the practice of fasting is often seen as an unhealthy attempt at losing weight. After all, at a very young age we were told that breakfast was the most important meal of the day, and skipping meals was unhealthy and would make you sick. But what many people dont realize is that we fast every single day already: while we are sleeping. This is the most basic form of intermittent fasting, which is what todays most popular fitness and health experts have built the modern method of short-term fasting on.

The Basics of Intermittent Fasting

Breakfast is commonly labeled as the most important meal of the day, by many members of the health and fitness community. A healthy and hearty breakfast does not only provide you with nutrients that give you a burst of energy to get through the morning, but it also sets up a good foundation to keep eating well throughout the day. At least, this is what most of society believes. However, the way we have been raised to look at food and when we eat our meals may be entirely wrong. Intermittent fasting (also known as IF) is a pattern of consuming meals, where you balance periods of eating with times of short-term fasting. The most common methods of intermittent fasting do not encourage a strict meal plan for the foods you should eat, but rather strongly focusing on when you should eat.

There are various intermittent fasting practices that will be discussed in-depth later: each meant to fit into your unique schedule and routine as needed. In a general sense, intermittent fasting is when your day or week is strategically split into cycles of fasting and eating. Intermittent fasting is typically simply extending your natural fasting period (when youre sleeping) into just a slightly longer timeframe. You can easily do this by skipping breakfast, and eating your first meal in the early afternoon, and then your last meal around eight pm. The most basic method of intermittent fasting is to fast for sixteen hours each day, therefore limiting your eating time to an eight-hour timeframe. This is the most common practice of IF and it is referred to as the 16/8 method.